Shirley Patterson
Born December 26, 1922 (Age: 103)
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Shirley Patterson, sometimes billed as Shawn Smith, (December 26, 1922 – April 4, 1995) was a Canadian born B-movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Patterson began her acting career after being a beauty contestant in pageants in California in 1940. She graduated from the Mar-Ken School in Sherman Oaks, California in 1941, and shortly thereafter she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures. Her career spanned forty films, a small quantity of television appearances, and a serial. A beautiful woman in her youth, Patterson played the role of heroine in the 1943 fifteen chapter Batman serial. In 1944 she starred in The Vigilantes Ride alongside Russell Hayden and Bob Wills. In 1946 she accompanied Eddie Dean and Roscoe Ates in the film Driftin River, and starred with them again that same year in Tumbleweed Trail. Two of her last films was the 1957 movie The Land Unknown, and the 1958 Sci-Fi film It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which also starred Ray "Crash" Corrigan who played a monster from outer space. Patterson had a long fight with cancer in her later years, and died in 1995 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley Patterson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Shirley Patterson, sometimes billed as Shawn Smith, (December 26, 1922 – April 4, 1995) was a Canadian born B-movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
Patterson began her acting career after being a beauty contestant in pageants in California in 1940. She graduated from the Mar-Ken School in Sherman Oaks, California in 1941, and shortly thereafter she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures. Her career spanned forty films, a small quantity of television appearances, and a serial.
A beautiful woman in her youth, Patterson played the role of heroine in the 1943 fifteen chapter Batman serial. In 1944 she starred in The Vigilantes Ride alongside Russell Hayden and Bob Wills. In 1946 she accompanied Eddie Dean and Roscoe Ates in the film Driftin River, and starred with them again that same year in Tumbleweed Trail. Two of her last films was the 1957 movie The Land Unknown, and the 1958 Sci-Fi film It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which also starred Ray "Crash" Corrigan who played a monster from outer space.
Patterson had a long fight with cancer in her later years, and died in 1995 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley Patterson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
2021
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as Self - (archive footage)
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Age: 98
The Silver Chalice
1954
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as Poppaea (uncredited)
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Age: 31
The French Line
1954
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as Elsie (uncredited)
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Age: 31
Riding Through Nevada
1942
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as Gail Holloway
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Age: 19
The Spirit of Stanford
1942
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as June Rogers
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Age: 19
Lucky Legs
1942
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as Chambermaid
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Age: 19
A Man's World
1942
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as Nurse Bentley
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Age: 19
Sabotage Squad
1942
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as Miss Cole, secretary
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Age: 19
Parachute Nurse
1942
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as Katherine Webb
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Age: 19
Riders of the Northland
1942
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as Sheila Taylor
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Age: 19
North of the Rockies
1942
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as Lydia Rogers
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Age: 19